Was looking at an iOS game, when something caught my eye… One of these is not like the other… Was mildly surprised she wasn’t their covergirl… And how in the hell is that thing comfortable?
Oh Stormfall, will you ever stop being such a textbook example of how not to do female armor? Also, when we talked about helmet equality we meant that she should be able to see when wearing her helmet.
Warrior women wearing helmets that prohibit looking at anything but the ground seems to be an oddly common problem…
– wincenworks
As someone named after a Rudyard Kipling book/character, I would just like to say: Fuck you Grimm Fairy Tales, now this is personal!
Assuming this is distaff-sexy-Mowgli (because that’s the only story popular media features from The Jungle Book and I’m pretty sure she’s not Rikki-Tikki-Tavi!) how did she get the daggers and the tattoos? Did Baloo set up a tattoo palor to get some extra honey!?
And of course, when it comes to the “something brown so maybe leather” bikini and wraps design… what else can one say but:
– wincenworks
A trend I’ve seen in positive female armor examples… I find neither good nor bad but just thought-provoking… In many of positive female armors, the ladies have a long, often untied and fancy (even sexy) hair. That kind of hair is usually very impractical in battle (blinds, someone can grab it), and while dudes can sometimes have freely flowing long hair, long hair is mostly girls’ thing in pop culture. Your thoughts, what is the okay-ness of giving a lady warrior long fancy hair, and why?
Largely we don’t address the long hair issues because the solution is pretty straight forward (as shown by the-hero-dies aka Kevin Warren):
As for the okay/appropriateness – it generally depends on the consistency and suspension of disbelief. It’s common practice in all kinds of media to have named characters go without helmets do they can be easily recognized and in more than a few productions the men have equally impractical hair styles.
When it becomes a problem is when products signal that some men are practical and/or warriors by giving them close cropped hair styles and then give women with equal responsibility fancy hair styles because they have an arbitrary checklist of traits all women need. Such as:
Then it’s terrible because it showcases the double standard, objectifies women and destroys the visual story telling by mixing the messages on what a character’s appearance is supposed to tell us.
– wincenworks
A trend I’ve seen in positive female armor examples… I find neither good nor bad but just thought-provoking… In many of positive female armors, the ladies have a long, often untied and fancy (even sexy) hair. That kind of hair is usually very impractical in battle (blinds, someone can grab it), and while dudes can sometimes have freely flowing long hair, long hair is mostly girls’ thing in pop culture. Your thoughts, what is the okay-ness of giving a lady warrior long fancy hair, and why?
Largely we don’t address the long hair issues because the solution is pretty straight forward (as shown by the-hero-dies aka Kevin Warren):
As for the okay/appropriateness – it generally depends on the consistency and suspension of disbelief. It’s common practice in all kinds of media to have named characters go without helmets do they can be easily recognized and in more than a few productions the men have equally impractical hair styles.
When it becomes a problem is when products signal that some men are practical and/or warriors by giving them close cropped hair styles and then give women with equal responsibility fancy hair styles because they have an arbitrary checklist of traits all women need. Such as:
Then it’s terrible because it showcases the double standard, objectifies women and destroys the visual story telling by mixing the messages on what a character’s appearance is supposed to tell us.
– wincenworks
Chaos Dragon and Gender Flips
whereismywizardhat submitted:
You know, in the adaptation from one medium to another, Gender flips happen. Most of the time, it’s actually to balance out a mostly male cast with some female characters, which is good.
Here’s what’s not good
This is from the anime Chaos Dragon, an adaptation of the light novel series based upon Gen Urobuchi and Kinoko Nasu’s tabletop game sessions. This is Lou Zhenjie, Urobuchi’s character. Notice the difference, beyond the genderswap, in how the character is treated?
It’s pretty terrible.
And people tell us that the parodies we feature are too ridiculous… I tend to think they’re not ridiculous enough!
– wincenworks